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Instructor: John Stauffer Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD How and why does the U.S. Civil War continue to shape national politics, laws, literature, and culture---especially in relation to our understanding of race, freedom, and equality...

Instructor: Philip Fisher Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Course Site A survey of the 20th-century novel, its forms, patterns of ideas, techniques, cultural context, rivalry...

Fall 2026 Instructor: Beth Blum Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Spring 2027 Section 1 Instructor: Homi Bhabha TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Section 2 Instructor: Martin Puchner...

Instructor: David Levine Wednesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Course Site What makes “Great Criticism?” Analytic clarity? A surfeit of objectivity...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 3:45-5:45 pm | Location: TBD In an age of scientific and political revolution, how do poets respond when common beliefs about God, humans, cosmic and social order, consciousness, and gender have been taken away? Modern...

Instructor: Homi Bhabha Fall 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students By focusing on literary narratives, cultural representations, and critical theories, this course explores ways in which issues related to migration...

Instructor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. TBD | Location: 104 Mount Auburn St 209 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course traces the history of the metaphor of a “New Negro” from its inception at the dawn of Jim Crow to the end of the New Negro...

Instructor: Sarah Dimick Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for meetings times & location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site Rachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring, and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers...

Instructor: Anna Wilson Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Course Site This course focuses on representations of race, religion, and cross-cultural...

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Monday, 12:00-2:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course introduces students to the poetry, literary prose, and artful correspondence of one of the major poets of the twentieth century, considering...